If ever I should condescend to prose,I'll write poetical commandments, which...Shall supersede beyond all doubt all thoseThat went before; in these I shall enrichMy text with many things that no one knows,And carry precept to the highest pitch:I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle,Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, int...emperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in Education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal... Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Science has done great things for us; it has also pushed us hopelessly back. For, not content with filling its own place, it has t...ried to supersede everything else. It has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A nation is not a person, but it manifests certain personal traits, especially since it is a more organic phenomenon than a state.... Its character traits are nothing more and nothing less than tendencies: but these tendencies underlie, and on occasion supersede, other tendencies, other historical conditions. They are manifest in the history of politics: consider, for example, the differences between Russian and Polish and Yugoslav Communists. They are evident in the historical development of societies: consider, for example, the difference between English and Italian industrial workers, or between French bourgeois and Austrian Burger. They are obvious in the historical unfolding of art: consider, for example, the differences between South German and South Italian baroque, or between German and Spanish "Victorian" architecture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history or philosophy, or ...poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individu...als, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »